Reimagining CO2 Athan Tountas, Prof. Ozin and Prof. Sain recently published their perspective ‘Solar methanol energy storage’ in the Nature Catalysis focus issue ‘CO2 Reimagined’ that acknowledges the five-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement. In it they explore the feasibility
How Long Will A Clean Energy Transition Take? (From Adv. Sci. News – November 2021) How Long Will A Clean Energy Transition Take? That’s the questions researchers at UofT’s Center of Biocomposite & Biomaterials Processing are trying to answer in
(From AZO Materials Press- November 2021) Researchers at Luleå University of Technology (Sweden) and the University of Toronto have demonstrated in the journal Applied Electronic Materials the high-performance electrochemical properties of biomass-derived graphene dots as a functional additive for green
( From University of Toronto Engineering News- September 2021) Professor Mohini Sain (MIE) has been elected a 2021 fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). The RSC’s mission is to recognize excellence, to advise governments and organizations, and to
(From TodayOnline Singapore – August 2021) At its launch on Tuesday, the Plastics Recycling Association of Singapore also announced plans to set up a Plastics Recycling Centre of Excellence, which will develop recycling solutions for the region. The centre signed several
Prof. Sain guest edits SN Applied Sciences special issus on:Interdisciplinary: Biomass and Biocomposites. Papers accepted for the issue cover topics such as: Composites limited to agricultural biomass/natural fibres; Characterization of the agricultural biomass, natural fibres, biopolymers; Biocomposite materials; Fabrication
Congrats Athan Tountas, graduate student working jointly between Professors Sain and Ozin, on posting a recent article detailing advancements in technology aimed a powering a new cyclic carbon economy. Instead of storing captured CO2 indefinitely, the idea is to use it
(From the International DME Association’s DME Insider Briefing – April 2021) A consortium involving global industry members and major academic and research institutions has revealed its work in North America related to the development of renewable, high-energy density drop-in automotive
Researchers Athan Tountas, Prof. Geoffrey Ozin, and Prof. Mohini Sain have recently published their design for a continuous reactor for renewable methanol in Green Chemistry (DOI) Abstract A renewable pathway to carbon net-neutral or net-negative feedstocks such as methanol is